Desenvolvimento e utilização de ontologias em bibliotecas digitais: uma proposta de aplicação

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Ramalho, Rogério Aparecido Sá [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ontologia; Ontologias (Recuperação da informação); Organização da informação; Bibliotecas digitais; Representação do conhecimento (Teoria do conhecimento); Sistemas de organização do conhecimento; Tecnologias semânticas; Ontologies; Systems of knowledge organization; Organization of information; Digital libraries; Semantic technologies
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103376

Throughout the last years, the increasing use of Technologies of Information and Communication (TICs) have stimulated a new gamma of informational necessities. The digital environments favor the transposition of the conventional limits of representation and dissemination of the registered knowledge, incorporating new elements to the processes of production, organization and recovery of information. Considering the ontologies as a new and riveting category of systems of representation of knowledge, we searched, starting from a interdisciplinary dialogue, bases that allow to analyze the approaches of this new computational approach with the instruments and methods traditionally used in the area of Knowledge Organization, investigating in what scale the area of Information Science can contribute to the development of ontologies and analyzing the consequences of its use in digital libraries. Therefore, a study of the main theories and technologies related to the development of ontologies and digital libraries was carried through, contextualized in the theoretical framework of the area of Information Science. In this way, the Ontology of Referential Informations (OIR) and a prototype of a Digital Library based on ontologies, called BibliOntO, was developed with the objective of analyzing the applicability of ontologies in digital libraries. As results, it was verified that the ontologies allow the development of new types of information services and improvements in the processes of representation, organization and recovery of information in digital environments. It was also evidenced that its application in digital libraries represents an interesting alternative, contributing for an adjusted attendance of the informational necessities of the users, in a way that the ontologies consist as a new... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)